Making chains



PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1853.

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MAKING CHAINS.

UNITED STATES PATNT FFICE.

CHRISTIAN SLEPPY, OF WILKESBARRE, PENNSYLVANIA.

MAKING CHAINS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 10,050, dated September 27, 1853.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTIAN SLEPPY, of VJilkesbarre, Luzerne county,State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Mode of MakingChains of Iron or Any other Hard Substance; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

The nature of my invention consists in making chains as joined by amachine, more fully specified hereafter.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

It consists of four rollers running upon journals in boxes (2) fastenedin a frame work (1) each roller having cogs by which they are propelled.To one of which the motive power is attached or may be to two or more.On the edge of each roller are steel dies (4) with sharp edges,corresponding to the size of the chain to be forged. The dies on theseveral rollers converge to a point, and in passing each other,

make the chain. The rod designed to pass through the rollers, may beround or square, with four flanges to suit the guide and which passesthrough the guide and is seized at the intersection of the four rollers:passes through, and comes out on the Opposite side a forged chain. Therod must be at a red heat.

The figures refer to the draft accompanying.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The forging and making chains out of a solid bar without the Weldingprocess; and which is done instantly as the bar passes between fourrollers with dies on the edges of the same molding the links into form,and which may be done out of iron, brass or any substance suitable to beused as a chain, from the size of a cable to a watch guard.

August 29, 1853.

CHRISTIAN SLEPPY.

Witnesses HEINDRICK B. NRYTEL, STEPHAN VAUGHAN.

